Comments on: Dirty Words Design: Episode 0, InDesign CS4 Smart Text Reflow

By: AdamJury

AdamJury — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:41:41 +0000

Thanks for watching, Bob, and for that clarification — that makes sense. It doesn’t produce the behavior I want, obviously, but that’s my mistaken expectations, not your fault. Hopefully that can be worked around in future versions, maybe with an Always Preserve Facing-Page Spreads option in addition to the current ones.

By: Bob Bringhurst

Bob Bringhurst — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:21:36 +0000

Interesting feedback. I forwarded this link to members of the InDesign team to look at.

Two of the bugs you mention seem valid, but the Preserve Facing-Page Spreads option works as designed. It’s just confusing. Here’s the description in Help:

This option determines whether facing-page spreads are preserved when text is reflowed in the middle of a document. If this option is selected when text reflows in the middle of the document, a new two-page spread is added. If this option is not selected, a single new page is added, and subsequent pages are “shuffled.”

In other words, this option has no effect when the text reflows at the end of the document.

Thanks – I hope to see more content. Please feel free to link to your posts in a comment at the bottom of the appropriate Help page, such as Use Smart Text Reflow.

By: colin johnson

colin johnson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:53:27 +0000

Very nice. I’m still on CS3, but like everyone else, i’ll have to upgrade at some point, and it’s good to learn about flaws and limitations in advance. As yet, I’ve only typeset one book, and I think the overflow feature would have been a great help. In my case, I wasn’t bound to a certain length beyond general symmetry, so the bugs wouldn’t have affected me much.

Nice site. Thanx for the vids.

cheerio

By: Daniel M. Perez

Daniel M. Perez — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:55:57 +0000

Downloaded and watching. Thanks for this!